"On the Jellicoe Road" Quotes
A teenage girl navigates friendship, loss, and a mysterious past while leading her boarding school in a territory war against rival students.
young adult | 290 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
You're surrounded by people who don't get it, and you spend your life figuring out how to protect yourself.
You look like a half-drowned cat.
We see things at our worst, that's when we take off our masks.
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterwards.
You can't choose where you come from, but you can choose where you go from there.
Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
When people leave, they don't just leave. They take your memories with them. And after a while, you start forgetting everything.
I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about.
We can't save each other. We can only love and protect and be there. It's not as if we have a choice.
